First up are a number of NASA's NAS Parallel Benchmarks, which
are very computational intense and written in Fortran with using the OpenMP builds
for multi-threaded handling.

Starting with the NPB "Embarrassingly Parallel" test,
the AMD FX-8350 at its stock speeds comes up slightly short of the Intel Core
i7 3770K "Ivy Bridge" processor. However, when overclocked to 4.60GHz
the eight-core Piledriver CPU is able to beat out the i7-3770K by a very small
margin! This is rather promising with the AMD FX-8350 set to debut at a significantly
lower price than the high-end i7-3770K Ivy Bridge.

For the Lower-Upper Gauss-Seidel solver within NPB, the FX-8350
continued to perform extremely well against the Intel Core i7 3770K. This is quite
interesting since even AMD marketing under Windows only pairs the FX-8350 as going
against the Core i7 3570K, not the i7-3770K.

The FX-8350 results also show a nice performance improvement over
the previous-generation FX-8150 Bulldozer at stock speeds.

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